Author: Jeff Connell

An ordained Baptist pastor with earned graduate and post-graduate degrees in theology and apologetics, Jeff Connell espouses an evangelical, baptistic, free church tradition. Philosophically, he is a Reformed Epistemologist in the footsteps of Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff. His personal apologetic methodology is foundationally rooted in Reformed Epistemology (RE), but extends through RE and includes a form of theistic evidentialism to augment the strictly negative apologetic aspects of RE. His stance is that theistic evidentialism, in a weak sense, informs and grants additional warrant to his reformed epistemological presuppositions. His theological starting point is that God exists, that He endowed mankind with some indefinable characteristics of himself (of which the sensus divinitatis may simply be a subset), and that the noetic effects of sin distorted those undefined, Divinely-bestowed characteristics to such an extent that the natural man ignores, suppresses and denies God’s existence. The sole recourse from one's self-judged (John 3:18) death sentence is in confessing Jesus as Lord, and believing that God raised him from the dead (Rom. 10:9-10).